"I KNOW WHAT I THINK..."

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 10

"I KNOW WHAT I THINK..."

CONVERSATION PIECES THE happy spirit that led Arnold Wall to compose, for a recent "Book Shop," dialogues from the standard repertoire of conversation sweets, must be the guiding genius of that programme. It is nearly always compered in a gracefully casual manner that shows a maturity and lack of pompousness rarely before captured by our radio set. | say "nearly always" because not so long ago we were ushered out of the shop by the manager himself, who sounded as if he had just realised that next week’s brew had boiled dry in the back of the shop and he could hardly wait to put up the shutters in our face. But generally we are received most courteously and we meet the most interesting people. | sometimes wonder if it is just the setting that allows them to hold our attentionthe Dane who wrote travel books, A. R. D. Fairburn on the "ethics" of borrowing books-but | think it is probably the fact that none of them talks to us for very long before the manager appears at our elbow with some new attraction, sometimes a little thing he has tossed off himself. So that | am listening now for more conversation pieces-perhaps a proverbial dialogue, or one composed entirely of school mottoes. Se Fe er es

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